LF Govt Takes Bold Decisions Despite Resource Crunch

Health scheme for the poor; mustard oil and red lentil to be distributed through PDS

Neither Blueprint, Nor Prioritisation In Achieving What Is Promised

Below are the edited extracts of CPI(M) leader in Rajya Sabha, Sitaram Yechury’s intervention in the debate on “Motion of Thanks” to the president of India for his address to the joint session of the parliament on June 10, 2014

Rajasthan Labour Moves Ominous: DUJ

THROUGH a statement issued from New Delhi on June 8, the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Delhi Press Initiative (DPI) castigated the Vasundhara Raje led BJP government of Rajasthan for its total surrender to big business and media monopolies. The state government of the BJP state government have sought, the statement accused, to virtually end the Industrial Disputes Act, Contract Labour Act and the Factories Act, and demolish whatever security has been left for employees.

Maharashtra: CPI(M), Mass Fronts Stage Protest

COMMUNAL MURDER OF MOHSIN SHEIKH
UNDER the pretext of protesting against a claimed Facebook posting insulting the revered historical figure of Maharashtra, Chhatrapati Shivaji, as well as the late Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, criminals belonging to the Hindutva Parivar went on assaulting members of the Muslim community and destroying property in Pune and some other cities of Maharashtra for several days recently.

Women’s Organisations Reiterate Reservation Demand

On June 9, several national level organisations of women sent the following letter to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, demanding 33 percent reservation for women in legislative bodies.
THE address by the president of India to both houses of parliament on June 9, 2014 has stated, in clause 19, the government’s commitment to provide 33 percent reservation to women in parliament and state legislative assemblies.

Announced MSPs Betrayal of Farmers: AIKS

ON June 5, Vijoo Krishnan, joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), attended the meeting of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) at Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi; the meeting was called for formulation of the price policy for rabi crops of 2014-15, to be marketed during the 2015-16 season. The AIKS emphasised the importance of remunerative pricing for providing incentive to the distressed peasantry in the country. Control on the input prices and freezing of fertiliser prices to pre-nutrient based subsidy (NBS) levels was sought.

TUs Jointly Raise Pressing Demands

PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATION WITH FM
ON June 6, the finance minister of the government of India called all the central trade union organisations for a pre-budget consultation. At the meeting, all the central trade union organisations submitted a joint memorandum to the finance minister detailing the burning issues facing the working people of the country; the memorandum also put forward suggestions of the trade unions to address the problems in the process of the budgetary exercise.

The Moves towards “De-dollarisation”

IN the wake of the imposition of sanctions against Russia by the West, following Russia’s opposition to Western designs on Ukraine and Western support to the Ukrainian fascists for carrying out those designs, President Putin has embarked on a course that can potentially have far-reaching consequences for the world economy.

CC Decides to Review Political Line & Organisational Functioning

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said that the Polit Bureau and the Central Committee of the Party took the primary responsibility for the failure to expand the independent strength of the Party and for the decline in the mass base of the Party which was reflected in the recent elections.

Claims of Good Governance are Suspect

AS we go to press, the current session of the parliament has been adjourned sine die. This first session held after the 16th general elections ended on the third day since it began with the customary rendition of the national song. This is probably the shortest parliament session in recent memory. The only agenda was the adoption of the customary motion of thanks to the president for his address to the joint session on the first day. The motion of thanks was moved in both the Houses on the second day and was adopted on the third day, thus ending the session.

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